Dakar, January 14, 2014 – With the Ebola virus epidemic continuing to claim lives in three West African countries, the World Bank has been working closely with leaders in the region to contain the outbreak...

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are on track to help relieve 39 countries of approximately US$114 billion in debt through two programs designed to help poor nations free up resources...

A recent report by the International Energy Agency says that mobilizing carbon capture and storage is critical to the success of efforts to keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius, and called for “aggressive...

WASHINGTON, May 4, 2012 – Measuring poverty in the developing world is no easy task, as the perennial debate over the World Bank’s release of poverty statistics can attest. One challenge is the lag in...

The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program's (ESMAP) annual Knowledge Exchange Forum May 7-9 investigated how results-based financing could work for energy projects to ensure that every dollar raised...

Almost a decade after the Extractive Industries Review (EIR), the consensus among some CSOs and Bank Group officials is that while some progress has been made in implementing the recommendations, on fighting...

Washington, Nov. 23, 2011 - How much will temperatures rise in 30, 40, or 50 years? How could changing weather affect rain-fed crops in the Horn of Africa, or winter flooding and summer droughts in Uzbekistan?...

December 6, 2010—Corruption fighters from around the globe are gathering December 6 to 8 at the World Bank in Washington, DC, to up the ante on fraud in development projects – part of an effort to halt...

KAIAF, The Gambia, October 13, 2010 – The village of Kaiaf, located 170 kilometers from Banjul, Gambia’s capital, differs little in appearance from that of other villages on this rainy morning. But the...